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Tenth of the 12 Minor Prophets, whose book is included in the Prophets section of the Bible and consists of two chapters and 38 verses. It is built on four prophetic revelations experienced by Haggai during the second regnal year of Darius I of Persia, i.e., 520 BCE. Haggai concerns himself with the construction of the Second Temple, criticizing the delay in rebuilding it and assuring the people that even though it is not as magnificent as Solomon's Temple, it will eventually be so. He also cautions that the Temple cannot confer holiness on a people whose deeds are impure. The final prophecy foretells the imminent toppling of the Persian empire in a civil war.
According to rabbinic tradition, Haggai was the first of three prophets (Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi) who prophesied in the time of Ezra. When these three died, "the Divine Spirit departed from Israel" (Yoma 9b). Haggai is quoted in the Talmud as the source of various laws (see, for example, Yev. 16a, Kid. 43a, RH 9a). The rabbis wrote that the Book of Haggai was edited by the men of the Great Assembly (BB 21a).
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A Hebrew prophet of the sixth century B.C.
[Hebrew ḥaggay.]
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For the prophetic book, see Book of Haggai.
For other persons named Haggai, see Haggai (disambiguation).
Haggai (Hebrew: חַגַּי, Ḥaggay or "Hag-i", Greek: Αγγαίος) was one of the twelve minor prophets and the author of the Book of Haggai. His name means "my feast". He was the first of three prophets (with Zechariah, his contemporary, and Malachi, who lived about one hundred years later), whose ministry belonged to the period of Jewish history which began after the return from captivity in Babylon.
Scarcely anything is known of his personal history. He may have been one of the captives taken to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. He began his ministry about sixteen years after the return of the Jews to Judah (ca. 520 BCE). The work of rebuilding the temple had been put to a stop through the intrigues of the Samaritans. After having been suspended for eighteen years, the work was resumed through the efforts of Haggai and Zechariah.[1] They exhorted the people, which roused them from their lethargy, and induced them to take advantage of a change in the policy of the Persian government under Darius the Great.
The name Haggai, with various vocalizations, is also found in the Book of Esther, as a eunuch servant of the Queen.
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Liturgical commemoration
On the liturgical calendar followed by the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite, Haggai is commemorated as a saint and prophet. His feast day is December 16 (for those churches which follow the traditional Julian Calendar, December 16 currently falls on December 29 of the modern Gregorian Calendar). He is also commemorated, in common with the other righteous persons of the Old Testament, on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers (the Sunday before the Nativity of the Lord).
Haggai is commemorated with the other Minor prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 31.
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References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.
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- Prophet Haggai Orthodox icon and synaxarion
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